Professor Webster [murderer in the Harvard murder case 27 years after
this letter was written--see 1850 Everett letter below] asks the recipient
to obtain mineral samples for addition to the Professor's collection.
[Note by Albert Borowitz: "This mineral collection later figured
in the murder, because Webster had dishonestly made a double pledge of
his mineral collection to his victim Parkman and another creditor as well."]

1824; 1828. Two letters written by William Probert, who, with Thurtell
and Hunt, murdered William Weare.

Harrison writes to a newspaper editor to set the record straight about
an attack on him with a gun by a person named Wright. The misinformation
was published in the "Buckeye." Harrison describes the attack
and his wounds, mentions Salem and New Lisbon, and the "Deerfield
murderer."

Circular letter reproduced on the letterhead of The Prison Department,
Home Office, Whitehall, S.W. The letter relates to the history of English
capital punishment. The signatory advises that the Home Secretary will
no longer recommend the employment of James Berry (a famous hangman in
his day) as executioner. An attachment lists three competent candidates
for the office of executioner kept at the Home Office.

Warden of the Ohio Penitentiary states that James Carr, "an insane
prisoner" from Stark County will be discharged from the facility
on Dec. 9, 1896. Requests that an officer be sent to take charge of the
prisoner upon release. Verso of letter contains holograph note: "James
Carr; Notice to [remove?] from O.P.; filed Dec. 4, 1896; Henry A. [surname
illegible]."

Diary entries consist of notes about weather, farming activities, expenditures,
and repairs to equipment. [Dougal was convicted of the murder of Camille
Cecile Holland at Moat Farm and was executed in July, 1903].

Lengthy inscription in this presentation copy of Three
Plays with Happy Endings (Special Collections PR6015.A47 T47 1907).
Hankin describes his automobile accident and concludes "I am unkilled--so
it won't 'boom' the plays! A pity!" This inscription was written
two years before his suicide.

"Eighty years before John Boyle, Crippen, a doctor trained in Cleveland,
poisoned his wife and buried her under the cellar floor of their London
residence. Lady Somerset was one of Crippen's public supporters. Crippen
was soon hanged after writing the letter" (Gallery of Sinister Perspectives,
entry I3). The letter is written on prison-supplied stationery, the verso
of which contains "regulations as to communications" and instructions
for sending replies to inmates. Click
here for an image and transcription of the letter.

Accompanied by an imprint of Armstrong's Notary Public seal and eight
postcards of Hay-on-Wye. Removed from Trial
of Herbert Rowse Armstrong, Special Collections call number KD373.A7
Y6 1927. [Armstrong, a Hay-on-Wye solicitor, was executed in 1922 for
the poisoning death of his wife, Katherine. See Blood & Ink,
F.21.]

Hopes that the book [Twelve Scots Trials] he sent to James [a
famous ghost-story writer] will not disappoint. Says he will ask his friend
Hugh Walpole to talk with Macmillan about a new edition of The House
by the Churchyard. Briefly discusses other writing projects and his
attempts to locate copies of two books by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu--Haunted
Lives and Chronicles of Golden Friars.

1935, June 13-21. Correspondence related to the Rattenbury-Stoner Case:

[Note: F. Tennyson Jesse edited the case for Notable British Trials.
O'Donnell was called to the murder scene and testified at the trial].

Acknowledges Agate's plans to write about Jessie M'Intosh M'Lachlan
and then lists his own writings on the subject. Presents as a gift for
Mr. Agate a copy of his book on the case that appeared in the Notable
Scottish Trials series.

This is a manuscript of an article published in Cornell Law Review,
v. 75 (March 1990) p. 497-609.

1999, 2000. Glass, Alan. Love in a Thirsty Land: A Play in Two Acts.
[typescript, signed]. 94 p.

Accompanied by a typed letter, signed from Glass to Albert Borowitz,
March 15, 2000, and a signed playbill from The Jewish Repertory Theater
production of the play in 2000. The play is partially based on a case
involving a young Jewish immigrant named Pesach Rubenstein, accused of
murdering his pregnant lover in 1870's Brooklyn, New York.

2005. Nigro, Don. My Sweetheart's the Man in the Moon: A play by Don Nigro.
[typescript, signed]. 149 p.

Accompanied by a typed letter, signed from Nigro to Albert Borowitz,
July 19, 2006. This play is based on the Harry K. Thaw, Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, and Stanford White love triangle, a result of which was Harry K. Thaw's murder of White.

"Author's Note: I might call my book a Commentary rather than a novel. The salient facts are based on the transcript of the trial in 1886, of Adelaide Bartlett for the murder of her husband by administering liquid chloroform. The transcript was published in 1886, by Stevens and Haynes, and edited by one of Adelaide's counsel, Edward Beal. The rest is my own conjecture based upon evidence. Any syntactical or stylistic errors in the trial scenes also occur in the transcript."

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